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The iPhone 7 could be the best phone on the market in 2016. But I still wont buy it if it doesn't include a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, regardless whether or not the lightning port can give higher quality audio.


You tell 'em Jack!

BTW, the iPhone is the only phone I ever even considered. I will buy it what ever the shape, size, configuration and even what ever the price. There, I've said it.
 
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Lol this further confirms my already confirmed decision to get the plus next time around.

I just hope that someday they give the plus an actual 2208x1242 display so that it gets rid of the downsampling process, would probably pretty much solve the performance gap between the regular and plus models.
 
Like shipping a laptop with a single port?
No, because even that computer still has a headphone jack...

We're talking about replacing something which has been an industry standard for decades. Something which most people still use regularly. Something which phone manufacturers already tried to replace, back when it was all about making phones as small as possible, and they failed.

What's more is that with the Mac they have already transitioned the major peripherals to BT. In contrast, unless you count Beats, Apple headphones are still wired.
 
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That will never happen!!! If Apple makes 32GB default, that will hurt their profit margins by as much as 20-30 percent. Can you imagine the board approve of such a move?


I think your math is wrong. Adding the memory won't change COGS as much as you seem to think.

Additionally, we know Apple likes to limit the number of SKUs, which also helps limit costs. So if they introduce a 256GB model in a specific product line, they are fairly likely to eschew the 16GB model in that line.
 
lol yet there will be 16GB as default model :D
seriously though,add OLED display instead of pale,old ass inferior tech LCD,and I'll return to iPhone.;)
 
Won't ever swap sizes now I've got the 6+ and 256GB still won't hold all my music, but it'll help.

512GB will be enough, but probably not by the time they release it. Lightning port for headphones would definitely not be suicide, a simple connector would be fine, Apple would be smart to give them away for the first year or so.
 
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I think your math is wrong. Adding the memory won't change COGS as much as you seem to think.

Additionally, we know Apple likes to limit the number of SKUs, which also helps limit costs. So if they introduce a 256GB model in a specific product line, they are fairly likely to eschew the 16GB model in that line.
Doesn't it cost 2-5$ or something to jump to 32gb over 16? Across millions of units, that is an ass load of lost money.
 
Sci-fi has the answer.

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Ahh, see through tech, would not be futuristic without it.
 
Doesn't it cost 2-5$ or something to jump to 32gb over 16? Across millions of units, that is an ass load of lost money.

I imagine another advances have cost as well, a dollar or two is nothing, all about that up sell. If they end up doing a 32 vs 128 for $100 I would go for more. Even at the current 16GB vs 64GB
 
More like

16GB model = $649
64GB model = $749
128GB model = $849
256GB model = $1549
OT, but this reminds me of getting sodas at work. They have a policy of "bring your own cup, it's $1.29", so I bring my 64oz Truck Stop cup to get diet coke. (listen, I've heard all of the "it's going to kill you" crapola. If you need to post how I'm going to die, that's a given as a price of being born.)

The clerks take it upon themselves to correct the injustice of getting that much soda for $1.29 by trying to charge me double the cost of a 32oz soda. When I point out how the cost increments by 10 cents for each increment in size:
16oz - $1.19
24oz - $1.29
32oz - $1.39
and ask, why they don't charge $2.38 for a 32oz soda, they say, "the price is $1.39, as posted." I then point out that the sign that says, "Bring your own cup, it's $1.29," they reply with, "that's not what was meant."
Then, I ask what they did mean by this, the usual reply is that if you bring a smaller than 20oz cup in. We then go into how they know this, and then I pull out the e-mail discussion I had with the director of food services where I work, and it is indeed supposed to be $1.29.
It's gotten so the new ones are warned when I walk up with my soda.
The moral: Never argue with an engineer. Sooner or later you'll realize they're right.
 
iPhone 7 will definitely come with 16GB of storage and 2GB ram. Don't keep your hopes up. Apple increases RAM every 4-5 years, so I don't expect they will increase it again this year.

Lol. Considering.... The first iPhone came out 8 years ago. And it has been upgraded from 128MB to 256MB to 512MB to 1GB to 2GB.

Do the math and it makes me think you don't know jack diddly squat.
 
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As much as I love Apple, it seems like they're getting more and more out of touch with what I'd like to see in an iPhone. My ideal iPhone 7 would be:
  • Same screen sizes with an added 4" iPhone mini/"c" model
  • Same thickness, using smaller internals to make way for more battery
  • Leave the headphone jack alone
  • 32/64/128 storage options (or better yet but less likely 64/128/256)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • And most importantly, no feature differences between models – optical image stabilization available on all iPhones
C'mon, Tim: make it happen!

Do you honestly expect anything close to that?
 
Or getting rid of the optical drive?
Again, no. Optical was already being supplanted by digital distribution by the time Apple ditched the optical drive.

Im not saying that the headphone jack can't be replaced. ****, I wish it'd be replaced already. It's a horribly obsolete standard. But it's a standard which has endured. Getting rid of it isnt going to be easy. You need a viable replacement on the market first. Otherwise this is going to be the 3rd gen iPod shuffle all over again.
 
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No, because even that computer still has a headphone jack...

True. Then again, the iPhone would still have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other means of connectivity. Not to mention using the Lightning port itself for headphones.

We're talking about replacing something which has been an industry standard for decades. Something which most people still use regularly.

So, you mean like the floppy disk?
 
as someone who thinks there's no such thing as "too much" storage and have the 128 GB versions of the iPad and iPhone even I think 250 Gb is ridiculous. Especially considering Apple is so sleazy/stingy with storage on their "real" computers. But I'm not one to lecture people on what their computing needs are. It drives me nuts when people think they have a right to question why I want/needed a 64 GB phone/tablet, then a 128 GB phone/tablet. I'm skipping the next few gens of phones and will probably get an 8s in 3 or 4 yrs, but when I do it'll be whatever the max capacity is at the time.
 
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